Attitudes of rangeland holders towards sustainable range management in Iran: A case study of the Semnan rangelands

Rangeland Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 435-443

  Abolhassani, Leili ^a   Oesten, Gerhard ^a   Rajmis, Sandra ^b   Azadi, Hossein ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Ecological Economy Research (I W)   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

compatibility; diffusion of innovations; observability.; relative advantage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886057378     PISSN: 10369872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RJ11079     Document Type: Article

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